Right Wing Propagandists Enlist Help In Spreading Lies

My oldest son knows a guy that regularly sends him right wing propaganda. Frank then forwards it to me to see my reaction. The latest one was so absurd that it seems unbelievable that anybody would believe it. This is how I responded:

As you know, I have almost as much contempt for the Democratic Party as I do for the Republicans but this crock of shit is contemptible.

This is misleading at best & blatantly false in some cases. It’s not even original. It was taken, word for word from this website:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/

the_lawyers_party.html

And we all know that you can’t believe everything you read online.

"The Lawyers' Party

This is very interesting! I never thought about it this way. Perhaps this is why so many physicians are conservatives or Republicans.

This simplistic statement deserves to be derided with a hearty laugh & 1 word: “BULLSHIT”

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers’ Party.

Barack Obama is a lawyer.

Michelle Obama is a lawyer.

Hillary Clinton is a lawyer.

Bill Clinton is a lawyer.

John Edwards is a lawyer.

Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer.

Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).

Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.

Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:

Harry Reid is a lawyer.

Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.

Howard Dean is a doctor

Jim Webb is a “1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Webb served as a Marine Corps infantry officer until 1972, and is a highly decorated Vietnam War combat veteran. During his four years with the Reagan administration, Webb served as the first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, then as Secretary of the Navy.”

The Republican Party is different.

George Allen, a rich man’s son is a lawyer

President Bush is a businessman. He’s a rich man’s son who failed at business

Vice President Cheney is a businessman. A draft dodger & career politician who was hired as influence peddler by Haliburton.

The leaders of the Republican Revolution:

Newt Gingrich was a history professor. And a hypocrite who criticized Clinton’s marital infidelity while cheating on his wife.

Tom Delay was an exterminator. And a felon Dick Armey was an economist.

House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer. He handed out checks (for votes) from the tobacco industry to members of the House of Representatives on the house floor.

The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon. He inherited millions from a wealthy family. The family business was about to lose most of its value when he illegally sold his stock in the family business to protect his interest$.

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976.

The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.

The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich.

Below is a partial list of the Republican National Lawyers’ Association

“Chief Justice John Roberts

Supreme Court of the United States

Fred Fielding

White House Counsel

Gale Norton

Former Secretary of the Interior

Current Members who are former Governmental Officials

Elliot Berke

Former Counsel, Office of the Speaker of the House and General Counsel, Office of the House Majority Leader

Craig S. Burkhardt

U.S. Department of Commerce

Former Chief Counsel of the United States Technology Administration

Charles Cooper

Former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel

Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr.

Former White House Counsel

Randy Evans

Counsel to former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and Counsel to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich

Robert Horn

United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 1987-94

Betty Southard Murphy

Former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board

Eileen J. O'Connor

Former Assistant Attorney General, Justice Department, Tax Division

Ted Olson

Former Solicitor General

Larry Thompson

Former Deputy U.S. Attorney General

Richard Wiley

Former Chairman, Commissioner and General Counsel

Federal Communications Commission 1970-77

Please note RNLA does not list its current members serving in governemnt.”(their misspelling)

http://www.rnla.org/About-Members.asp

The Lawyers’ Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America . And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers’ Party, grow.

Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation. (It should be noted that the propagandists cited no sources to document these sweeping generalizations.)

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers.

Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people.

Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation.

When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become “adverse parties” of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit.

We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers. (When was the last time that you heard a "freedom loving" Republican rail against the loss of freedom that results from the war on drugs? A true conservative would see that those unconstitutional laws are little more than full employment projects for lawyers.)

Today, we are drowning in laws; (If I had a dollar for every time I heard a Republican politician intone the cliché that “ours is a nation of laws,” I’d have so much money that people would think I’m a Republican. Wasn’t it the Rs who passed a law to try to force Mr. Schiavo to keep his vegetating wife alive. Bill Frist liked that law because it transferred more wealth to the medical industrial complex. The Repugnant lawyers whom this writer tries to ignore are trying to defeat health insurance reform because they like the way the current system transfers our money to that greedy bunch.) we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too b ig. When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby (Scooter Libby is a lawyer who was a party to outing a CIA agent) and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

We cannot expect the Lawyers’ Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.

Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the

mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.

The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the world’s lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as “spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you” and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association. (This is a flat out lie, or else the writer is dyslexic. The real percentage that Dems get from that group is 79%):

http://www.campaignmoney.com/Trial_Lawyer.asp

goes to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!

Please -- DO PASS THIS ON!!!"
Liars need help in spreading their lies

The truth is that when it comes to "lawyering up" there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the major parties; that's why I keep voting for minor parties, hoping that some day we'll have a real party that stands for Lincoln's dream of a party by, for & of the people. I wanted to say a people's party but I know how propagandists work & they would have twisted that to label me a communist, in hopes of distracting from what was really said.